Blaming teachers but his Education Ministry chose supervisors from public to invigilate exams!

Ministry blames school heads for exam failure

THE inefficiency of school heads has been blamed for the failure of a number of Year 6 students in their exams. Responding to queries raised by a headteacher during the education reforms forum in the North yesterday, Dr Reddy said markers had no choice but to fail papers without index numbers, adding that school heads failed to ensure that students filled their index numbers.

Dr Reddy labelled the issue as a national embarrassment saying the ministry would deal directly with those concerned. "It is because of people like you who collected the papers from children without checking whether their index numbers were entered or not that these children had failed," Dr Reddy replied."Therefore when we were marking the papers, we could not decide whom the paper belonged to so we gave them a zero.

"It is inefficient heads like you that created a national issue which became an embarrassment and this year we willfixyou up."

Meanwhile, addressing the forum yesterday, former St Mary's School acting headteacher Mosese Cabecuva said they had received complaints from members of the public regarding certain students' marks in the school.Mr Cabecuva asked Dr Reddy to comment on the alteration of students' marks after complaints were submitted to the ministry by the school.

"I am surprised at the minister's response in blaming school heads when indeed we were never allowed in the examination rooms during the duration of the exams," he said in an interview after the consultation.

"All papers were handled by the supervisors who had been selected by the ministry to supervise the examinations. School heads had no hand in the handling of these papers."

A concerned parent, Unaisi Talebula yesterday said she felt sorry for the students who were failed for not writing their index numbers.

Ms Talebula said no child should be failed because of the inefficiency of others.

"The sacrifices of the children's parents and the students themselves have been wasted when this happened," she said. Source: Fiji Times, 10 January 2016

Editor,
It is not uncommon to have the wrong people parked in top positions who are damaging to the organisation/ public good.
The examples from world sports bodies are quite telling in this regard.
We learn from the guardian article ' IAAF in crisis : a complex trial of corruption that led to the very top ' ( 8/01 ) Yes, that's where the big crooks and incompetent ones tend to be parked - at the very top.
Now one man's decision to speak out has led to four top officials getting the boot from IAAF.
The same is the case in FIFA. We learn from The Telegraph 13/01 ' FIFA latest : FIFA sacks Jerome Valcke ' that the Secretary General, who was President Sepp Blatter's right hand man has now be sacked after previously serving a suspension from all footballing activities.
The other two FIFA top dogs Blatter and Platini remain suspended for 8 years and now the Ethics Committee investigators want to appeal that sentence saying it was " unduly lenient ".
These cases - whether in sports or politics - remind us The fish rots from the head ( Bob Garratt, 1996 ).
The rotten heads need to removed for the greater good .
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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Aj

13/1/2016 10:17:05 am

Monster Reddy is less than a mediocre man. He failed Form 6. Rumour is Professor Vijay Naidu failed his Masters at USP. His is anti-teachers because he blames his teachers for his own failures. He hates USP academics for failing him at USP. These explain his behaviour. He rose to fame on the back of Dr. Ganesh Chand, then copied all his ideas and then stabbed him in the back. He will stab Kaiyum, Bai and Bala as well. Just wait and watch.

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Aj

13/1/2016 10:37:04 am

In Fiji, everyone knows that smart and intelligent teachers stand their own ground and weak and dumb teachers advance through masi polo. Monster Reddy loves those who have the skill of masi polo, starting with his new PS. Tiko is an expert in this. Everywhere Monster Reddy goes, he gets thrilled when dumbass teachers praise him. When smart and intelligent teachers speak, Monster Reddy starts playing with his smart phone, thinking the phone will make him look smart! This is now a joke among teachers and unions leaders.

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Bikashni Chand

13/1/2016 10:56:47 pm

Instead of pointing fingers at anyone else, it would be wiser to elaborate on the true meaning of the so called "free education". This words are so misleading. We as parents if we send our children to a public school then we benefit from free tuition fee & text book fees. Otherwise, the reality is we still buy all the uniform, books, stationeries, shoes, bags, toilet paper, brush, Colgate etc. My son will go into year 2 and today I have spend $300 on all these items. So where is "free education"!!! If only all these things are taken care of and parents send there child(ren) to school with recess and lunch, then it is free education. It's about time we should open our eyes n ask the government of the day to be more vigilant in their deeds instead of playing with English vocabularies.

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